RBC also recently hired three managing directors from Barclays PLC to join its technology investment banking group in New York, people familiar with the matter said.

Mahaney, who was dismissed from Citigroup in October after it determined he broke disclosure rules, had been a key analyst at Citigroup, often credited with drawing tech firms to the bank’s advisory team.

Mahaney will be the biggest name in the group of recent tech hires, where the Toronto bank has climbed into the No. 10 spot globally, when counting by investment banking revenues in technolgy, Dealogic said. Just three years ago it was as low as No. 20 in global tech revenues, according to the data provider.

The three are: Michal Katz, who headed the global software practice at Barclays’s technology banking group; Erik-Jaap Molenaar, who worked in the bank’s tech M&A group; and Michael Carter, who headed up enterprise systems and services banking.

The trio left Barclays at the end of last year and are expected to join RBC Capital in the coming months, the people said.